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title: At these words poor Ferko wept more bitterly than before, and bore t… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At these words poor Ferko wept more bitterly than before, and bore the torments of hunger till the sun was high in the heavens; then he could stand it no longer, and he consented to allow his left eye to be put out and his left leg to be broken. Who acts: poor Ferko, sun, Ferko, left eye. A sentence
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 18

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At these words poor Ferko wept more bitterly than before, and bore the torments of hunger till the sun was high in the heavens; then he could stand it no longer, and he consented to allow his left eye to be put out and his left leg to be broken.

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**Who acts:** poor Ferko, sun, Ferko, left eye · **What happens:** weep, bear, be, stand, consent, allow · **To what, where:** words, torments, heavens, sun, left eye, hunger

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor Ferko, sun, Ferko, left eye), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg640:14:18
# text = At these words poor Ferko wept more bitterly than before, and bore the torments of hunger till the sun was high in the heavens; then he could stand it no longer, and he consented to allow his left eye to be put out and his left leg to be broken.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
4	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Ferko	Ferko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
8	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	before	before	ADV	RB	_	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	torments	torment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	heavens	heaven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
27	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	no	no	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	consented	consent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	xcomp	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
41	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
44	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	aux:pass	_	_
45	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	xcomp	_	_
46	out	out	ADP	RP	_	45	compound:prt	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
48	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
49	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	conj	_	_
51	to	to	PART	TO	_	53	mark	_	_
52	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	aux:pass	_	_
53	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weep** | past | poor Ferko |  |  | this words |  | bitterly *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bear** | past | poor Ferko *not said here* | the torments of hunger |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent torment=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | the sun |  |  | the heavens |  | high *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **stand** | could | Ferko | sun |  |  | then | long *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 5 | **consent** | past | Ferko |  |  |  |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **allow** | to-infinitive | Ferko *not said here* | Ferko's left eye |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer eye=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **put out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | Ferko's left eye *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP» |
| 8 | **break** | to-infinitive · passive | Ferko's left eye *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V» |
| 9 | **torment** |  |  | hunger |  |  |  |  | nom torment «state transitive»: of=patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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